Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1887-02-12
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.

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sociation of Jersey City weighs 4l6
pounds.-N \. Ma7.
james Lick's monument in San
Francisco contains no inscription but
his name and age and the line, "A Ma
tive Of Pennsylvania. y
Senator Sherman has since his boy
hood been a careful collector-but not
solicitor, of course-of autographs OF
eminent persons.-Chicago journal.
W G. Deshler, millionaire banker
of Columbus, o., has presented the
Women's Benevolent Society of that
city with a check for one hundred
thousand dollars.
AT the annual dinner of the Har-
ward class of 1928 in Boston the other
day eight gentlemen were present, the
youngest Of whom is DR.. Holmes, aged
sevcnty-seven years
Miss Bessie White, who, by the de-
cision of a Kentucky court, is allowed
to dispense medicines in that State, is
sister of ex-Congressman White, Of
Kentucky, and is profound mathema-
tican.
--Osceola, a town on the west side
of the Cascades, in Washington Terri
tory, boasts Of schoolmistress OF
eighteen summers and weight of 1925
pounds. She is the one attraction Of
the town. Chicaq0 Herald.
John NJ. Wolff, of Martinsburg, W.
Va, died recently, aged ninety-onc
years. He not only was tfie oldest man
in the town, but had been a church
member sixty years, had never used
tobacco, and never drank whisky or
other intoxicants, and was never heard
to utter an oath.-N y. sun.
Senator Cameron, while he de-
clincd to make public subscription to
the fund for Mrs. Logan for reasons
which he said would be satisfactory TO
her, is said to have Cancelled and re-
turned to her note of the late Sena-
tor Logan for a loan running up into
the Thousands. -Philadelphia Press,
"A Boston lady who sent bouquet
Of beautiful roses to DR.. Holmes re-
ccived from him this charitable note;
MANY thanks, dear Mrs. P for the
beautiful roses; and if the gardens
We're as full Of flowers as your heart is
Of kind feelings, they would leave no
room for sidewalks. '-BoSton Herald.
, Miss Nettie Carpenter, the Ameri.
can girl volinist, has been playing with
great success ut concerts in Germany
, At the concert which she recently gave
! in Berlin the Crown Prince anc
Princess We're present and loudly ap
, plauded her. Her latest appearance
, was in Leipsic, whore she has createC
. a positive furor.- Chicago Tribune.
q Prince Dolgorouki brother of tn,
morganatic wife of the late Car o
: Russia. is living at Tahlequah, l. I
He was Nihli,t, bauished to the 81
t berian mines, whence he made his t.
t cape after five years, remaining il
e China nine years, and finally comm;
r to the United States. His sister, tn
y Princess, is living in half exile il
: France, and is very wcalthy.-Dearc
: Tribune.
= About a year ago il was announce,
+ that Annie O'Connor, an Irish servan
= Girl in Toledo, had fallen heir to larg
= fortune in England, 1t was not true
but Annie was sought for by Nuitor, O
! every class and last "Wednesday She wa
married to James O'Kcefc, wealth
| resident of Pittsburgh. But one hun
! dred other girl, who try this plan vii
| get left with husband, they will hav
= to support Chicago Inter ocean.
, The annual increase of mcdica
men in this country is five and one-hal
: per cent, while the annual increase o
' population is less than two per cent
t Certain statistics of the profession il
t Illinois show that between the year
= 1880 and 1886 seven per cent. of tn
: physicians left the profession and en-
, gagged in other pursuits, 1t is statc'
that there are from fifteen hundred t,
two thousand more physicians in III
? inoiS than are necessary, and who ar
, earning livelihood legitimately.-N
| !. Post.